Relay round Ilford
ProRes digital file Black & White Silent 1929 1:15
Summary: Extraordinary shorts and exhausted runners feature in this short newsreel showing highlights of a 40-mile relay race round Ilford.
Title number: 20198
LSA ID: LSA/26671
Description: The annual round-the-houses 40-mile relay race featured several of London’s leading athletic clubs and was on this occasion won by Belgrave Harriers in a record time of 3 hours 15 minutes 51 seconds. We see the runners set off from an Ilford side street, and then there are several shots of them running through the town, often surrounded by buzzing cyclists. The crowd shout encouragement, the runners look exhausted and the winners show off some impressive shorts.
Further information: The winning team, Belgrave Harriers, are an athletic club founded in 1887 and based in Wimbledon.
This annual relay race was probably established around 1927, as a British Pathe 1938 newsreel (http://www.britishpathe.com/video/ilford-athletic-club-holds-its-annual-relay-race) mentions it's the 12th "edition".
Race covered by British Pathe in 1935: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Lan7H6dis
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